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Week Beginning8 March 2021

P7 Home learning

P7 Home Learning. Week beginning Monday 8-3-2021

This week there will be a daily Sumdog task for you to complete.

In addition we will be consolidating our learning on fractions , decimals and percentages. There are also some tasks on perimeters and areas of shapes

There are also two tasks for everyone to try.

Task

Arithmetic practice I have set 2 tasks this week

Mental maths practice •There are also two mental maths challenges, each with 10 questions. •Remember that questions are to be read out loud and worked out in your heads before writing down the answer.

Numeracy & Maths

Try to do some numeracy and maths activities every day. I will set you sumdog challenges and either a mental maths or an arithmetic based challenge daily also.You can also set yourself a challenge to know all of your times tables fluently before the end of the school year.

Numeracy Maths

Literacy and English

Try to do some literacy activities every day. Ask your parents to please register for a free account on www.oxfordowl.co.uk.I will set out additional tasks in the boxes below that you can try.

Reading

This week we are going to continue reading "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemmony Snicket, "The Bad Beginning".

Use this link to listen to chapter 4 of the book. It lasts around 10 minutes.

You may need to listen to this a few times before you can answer the questions on worksheet 1. As you listen take notes as this will help you.

Try to do some reading every day .

Listening and Talking

The tasks this week involve listening to the recording of chapter 4 of the book and taking part in discussions during our meetings.

Writing

There is one writing task this week and there are three preparatory worksheets to complete.

Spelling

Use the spelling worksheet and grid of activities to help

you learn this week’s words and ask someone to test you at the end of the week.

There is a word search for you to complete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WCXWa8PS8

Art/Music

Modern Languages

Check out the Spanish ideas posted on the website.

Watch this short video and make a poster with some Spanish sentences telling me about the things you do at school and the subjects you enjoy.

Social Studies

STEM

What is a plant?What does a plant need to live?Make a poster detailing the different parts of a plant and explain what a plant needs to live.

Use these links to access short clips and quizzes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxfrwmn/articles/zknq7nb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxfrwmn/articles/zrtdwty

International Woman’s day is on 8 March.Imagine if you were a girl and you were kept at home to grow food, cook and clean and look after babies while your brother went off to school each day. How would you feel? Do you think that is fair?Many girls all over the world are prevented from going to school because girls getting an education is not valued by their communities or countries.Listen to the story “Malala’s Magic Pencil”

Talk to your family about how this made you feel.

Find out about Malala Yousafzai?

What would you do if you had a magic pencil?https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zh7wqp3/articles/zmrtjsg

It is Mothers Day on Sunday 14 March. Your task is to make a card for your mum. I have put up a sheet with some ideas. Get creative and show your mum you care. Post your artwork on teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRmBG_FNv4

Health and Wellbeing

P.E.

It is very important to try to keep fit and healthy. Mr Creaney has made a P.E. grid with different activities for you to try . Go on try some different activities throughout the week and let us know what you have been doing. You could post a picture.

You can find the link here.

https://www.getset4pe.co.uk/ResourceBank/ResourceCategory/1002

R.E.

Task 1:

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Task 2: :During this week of Lent make a Lnten cube. There are six faces on a cube. Try to think of six things you could pray for or be thankful for during lent and decorate your cube with these prayers. There is a worksheet with a template and ideas.

Task 3:.Lenten task -See the worksheet

Building Resilience

This will be our last week of home learning as we all come back into school on Monday 15 March.Take some time this week to reflect on your timespent learning at home. What did you enjoy? Whatdid you not enjoy?How do you feel about coming back into school?What things are you looking forward to?What things are you not looking forward to?Are you worried about anything?

Write down your thoughts on the worksheet and we can talk about these at one of our meetings. Do you have any questions?

Read John 3:16. Why do you think God sent his only son into this world ?

God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life

P7 Teams Timetable Week 22 Feb

10.00 am 11.15 am 1.00 pm 2.15 pm

Monday Class Catch Up

GRID CHAT

Class Catch Up

QUIZ

Tuesday Class Catch Up

LITERACY

GROUP 1 Class Catch Up

QUIZ

GROUP 2

Wednesday Class Catch Up

QUIZ

GROUP 3 Class Catch Up

GROUP 4

Thursday Class Catch Up

QUIZ

GROUP 2 Class Catch Up

GROUP 6

Friday ASSEMBLY

MathsI suggest that you try to spend 1 -1.5 hours a day on maths.

I have set you daily Sumdog challenges, two arithmetic based problems and

2 mental maths tasks. Try one each day

There are also 2 additional maths tasks .

Mental maths (I suggest -Monday & Wednesday)

Arithmetic problems (I suggest Tuesday and Thursday)

Task 1 – Sumdog Task1 - Monday

Task 2 – Sumdog, Task2 - Tuesday

Task 3 – Sumdog Task 3 - Wednesday

Task 4 - Sumdog Task4 -Thursday

Daily Mental Maths Challenges P7 - Week Beginning 8 March 2021

To Complete mental maths tasks you need to ask an adult or friend to read the questions out loud to you. You then have say, 20 seconds, to write down your answer before moving on to the next question. Good luck.

(1) 21 – 9 =

(2) 38 + 83 =

(3) 54 ÷ 9 =

(4) 10 x 102 =

(5) 20 x 20 =

(6) ½ of 18 =

(7) 505 ÷ 5=

(8) Which numbers are factors

of36? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

(9) 2/5 of 10 =

(10) 5 lots of 1 =

(1) What is 7 less than31?

(2) 2 hundreds and 0 units=

(3) How many edges in a square based

pyramid?

(4) I have £3.00 how many pens,

costing 20p each can I buy ?

(5) Double 72 =

(6) Write 25% as a fraction

(7) 735 -34 - 9 =

(8) Write the fraction 53/5 as a mixed

number.

(9) 109 ÷ 4 =

(10) 1/3 of 78 =

Time yourself. Can you improve on your time

X 9 3 8 4

2

6

5

7

MathsTask 1

MathsTask 2

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=af6sSGo3tUKfacnke7-5xEtvD8otsv9JgoaY73_P9ZNUMVVHQURQVzhWMlAxNjhHN0o3QUpRUFc4OS4u

Try this quiz on fractions. There are ten questions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zd2bgwxWorking out percentages

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zm6c47hFractions and percentages

Calculating percentages in everyday situations

How to calculate a percentage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zr8nscw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zghnb9q/articles/z4khpg8

MathsTask 3

Watch the short clips below to revise your understanding of percentages and try the quizzes.

Literacy

I suggest you try one task every day. These tasks should take between 1 to 1.5 hours.

Spelling Monday

Reading Task 2 Tuesday

Grammar Task 3 Wednesday

Writing Task 4 Thursday/Friday

impractical

imprecise

improbable

improper

impervious

implausible

impolite

impossible

Look up the meaning of any word you do not understand.

Complete the word search.

Spelling - 1 March 2021

a i m m a t u r e t i s d d i e x c e l i m p y i

w s d f g n p p b d m z x c m v b b m m a s s t o

e e t i u q a w s s p a i m p e r f e c t a d s e

w a s r t i n g t r o b e r r s s i n g f t c s i

s i m p e r v i o u s d f h o o a s i r m p i s a

u m m r t a m d t a s e d e b a i s d f g c b d r

y m i p m p l l n u i m p l a u s i b l e t y c t

y l e t r s a l e e b m r d b e e t y r t u t d i

t t r o y o y j i a l e p o l p x s p e c i a l f

r o p u g o b f c t e e r o e o c m s s c b r h i

r e t i a s l b n a t o m m l g i m a o r t w j c

r o l a c i t c a r p m i d z i z z x c c h s k i

e p j o g g f n s b w r t z z a t w e r t i s c a

f g y p n t a s e e l t s a s z s e x c v b a x l

e l b i d e r c n i s e d v y t r z a q w a s l l

Find your spelling words ….and a few extra

impoliteimprecise

imperviousimplausibleimpractical improper

immatureimpossibleimperfect improbable

excel socialancient incrediblespecial artificial

Literacy Task 2

Vocabulary -

What does it mean if you treat someone “abominably”? What is a vendor? What does it mean if there is an assortment of people?

(1) How do you think the children feel about Justice Strauss?

(2) Why do you think the children were too miserable to eat?

(3) Why do you think Count Olaf agreed to look after the orphans?

(4) Do you think Count Olaf should refer to the children as orphans? Explain your answer.

Summarise Count Olaf in one word and explain why you chose this word..

A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemmony Snicket, "The Bad Beginning".

Use this link to listen to chapter 4 of the book. It lasts around 10 minutes. Before you read this be aware that some unpleasant things happen to the children during Count Olaf’s dinner.

Starting at mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WCXWa8PS8

You may need to listen to this a few times before you can answer the questions. As you listen take notes as this will help you.

Literacy Task 3

Adverbials are words or phrases used to describe a verb.

They can be one word (angrily, here) , or phrases (at home, in a few hours) and often say

how, where, when or how often something happens or is done.

later that afternoonin an instant

first thing in the morning

without hesitation

just then

much later

as the day was drawing to a close

afterwards

before long

eventually immediately

as soon as

Adverbials -We are learning how to use adverbials in our writing.

The adverbials below are time adverbials which mean they give us more inform about when something happens. Choose 5 and write a sentence for each.

Time Adverbials

Literacy Task 4 In chapter 3 we read about Justice Strauss’ meeting with the children and the visit to her

home. The sheet below will help you recall the events. Imagine you are Justice Strauss. Write down your thoughts during the time you spent with the children. What did you think of them? How did you feel towards them? How did you feel about the things they were asked to do?

1- Visited the children at Count Olaf’s house.

2 – Invited them to use the library.

3 – Took them to the market..

4 – Declined the offer of chores..

Literacy Task 4

In chapter 4 we read about Count Olaf’s reaction to the meal the children prepared and the actions during the troupe dinner. Use the sheet below to help you record the events of the dinner.Imagine you are Count Olaf. Write down your thoughts about the children during the troupe dinner. What did you think of them? How did you feel towards them? How did you feel about the way they spoke to you?

1- You have arrived home to find the orphans have made the wrong food

2 – Laughed at dinner while the orphans served.

3 – Furious that the orphan boy was rude about money.

4 – Plans for the future.

Writing Task 4

You are going to write a diary entry about the events in chapter 3or 4.

You can choose whether to write the diary as Justice Strauss. Imagine you were her. What do you think she would have written about the children and the time she spent with them?

Or

You can choose to be Count Olaf. Imagine how you would be feeling if you were him. What was he thinking when he got home to find no roast beef? How did he react? What did he think about the children and his actions? What were his plans?

You must use some adverbials in your writing.

Show your mum just how much you care about her and how much you appreciate everything she does for you.

Pick her some flowers, make her a cup of tea,how about giving her an envelope of treats –My own children one year gave me an envelope with small notes in it. As I opened each one it was a promise – of one hug, to brush my hair, to rub my back, to make a cup of tea, to clear away the dishes…. Be creative.

R.E.Lenten Task

FAST Many Catholics give up something during lent.

PRAYMany Catholics spend time during lent praying to God.

GIVEMany Catholics give money to charities or give their time to help people in need.

PREPARELent is a time when Catholics get ready for Easter.

This week think about prayers. Think about others who may need help. Is there anyone you could prayfor? Think about the things you are thankful to Godfor.

Lenten cube.

Write a prayer on each face of the cube.

Think about

Thanking God,

Praying for others,

Prayers for people who need help,

Back To SchoolRefections

At home I enjoyed …

I am not looking forward to ..I am looking forward to ..

Questions ?

At home I didn’t enjoy or missed…Home Learning

Refections